Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected

by Daniel J. Boorstin

Overview

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Discoverers demonstrates the truth behind the aphorism that if Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the face of the world would have been changed. Boorstin goes on to uncover the elements of accident, improvisation and contradiction at the core of American institutions and beliefs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679755180
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/31/1995
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Daniel J. Boorstin was the author of The Americans, a trilogy (The Colonial Experience, The National Experience, and The Democratic Experience) that won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1989, he received the National Book Award for lifetime contribution to literature. He was the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, and for twelve years served as the Librarian of Congress. He died in 2004.

Editorial Reviews

The scope of Boorstin's work is as broad as history itself.

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